Word: halifax
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...continuing challenge to its competitiveness, especially as more highly skilled, high-paying jobs are likely to flee south to lower wage levels after ratification of the free-trade accord with Mexico. By the year 2000, said TIME panelist James McNiven, the dean of management at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the number of Canadians working in manufacturing jobs will have dropped from today's 20% of the work force to only 8%. Most other jobs will be in the services area, including such sophisticated sectors as environmental engineering and computer-information systems. Workers who do not measure...
McConnon, who is from Halifax, Nova Scotia,came to Harvard in part, he says, because CoachFrank Haggerty "recruits a lot of Canadians." ButMcConnon says he also decided to enroll for theschool's academic reputation, and that travel andthe other demands of his sport have taken theirtoll...